July 14th, 2011 by Warwick Hughes
Just saw this news at ABC online. “Pirates disrupting climate change research”
Note at the end – “….so right now half the tropical Indian Ocean is out of bounds for us so it’s a big problem, both for weather forecasting but also for that longer term climate seasonal forecasting.”
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July 14th, 2011 by Warwick Hughes
I saw this at Anthony Watts.
“Germany to fund new coal plants with climate change fund cash”
Here is another article – reads as though translated online. “coal power plant Moorburg takes shape” near Hamburg I think.
It is getting way past crazy.
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July 8th, 2011 by Warwick Hughes
I read where Govt is establishing ARENA - the “Australian Renewable Energy Agency” – to manage $3.2 billion of renewable energy funding.
Some great quotes by the Green Senator Christine Milne – “It has been obvious for years that renewable energy programs in Australia are a mess of badly designed schemes run as photo opportunities…”.
Can anyone remember a worse performance by an Australian Prime Minister – bypassing Parliament to announce this huge new Carbon Dioxide Tax. Clearly her advisers must have told her, “…you could lose a vote…”.
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